Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 07/08

20080184259 - End node transactions at threshold-partial fullness of storage space: An upstream-communication end node of an apparatus in an example upon a receipt of an indication of threshold-partial fullness of transaction-storage space on a downstream-communication end node modifies transaction-selection for delivery to the downstream-communication end node to exclude one or more transactions originated on the upstream-communication end node.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184260 - Dynamic application policy for service based interaction: In one embodiment, dynamic state for an end device is stored. The dynamic state may be derived from a state of the end device or may be derived from other sources, such as third-party applications. A message is received and associated with a first application for the end device. Dynamic... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080184261 - Method for re-enabling a disabled capability of a terminal and a device management system for the same: Provided is a method for enabling a capability of a terminal in a device management system including a server capable of at least one of enabling and disabling capabilities of the terminal. The method includes the step of determining if a condition has been met for requesting enablement of a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080184262 - Method for predicting performance of distributed stream processing systems: A method comprises estimating a performance of a processing system using queueing theory wherein the processing system comprises a network that accepts at least one input message stream from a plurality of publishing clients, transforms the at least one input message stream into at least one output message stream utilizing... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080184263 - Program evaluation program, program evaluation device, and program evaluation method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an evaluation device for evaluating a target program is provided by calculating a first parameter showing an impact size of a target module of the target program on the outside of the target module, based on an execution log of the target program... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080184264 - Method, apparatus and media for information model data retrieval: A computer implemented method that may include receiving an object manager request within an object oriented model, wherein said model comprises a first object manager comprising a first data format and a second object manager comprising a second data format different than the first data format and wherein the request... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080184265 - Exposing process flows and choreography controllers as web services: The present invention relates to computer-based devices and methods supporting document exchange choreographies. More particularly, aspects of the present invention relate to devices and methods that facilitate evolution of systems by various combinations of choreography versioning, service versioning and document versioning. It provides for choreography management using a choreography agent... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080184271 - Automated diagnostic service: A method of providing diagnostic service for a data processing system includes retrieving product data identifying a data processing element in response to an alert generated by the element. The retrieved product data is forwarded to a networked diagnostic site. A diagnostic package is retrieved, the diagnostic package including diagnostic... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080184272 - Documentation system for loss control: Systems and methods of documenting an event are disclosed. Events may include, but are not limited to, an accident, a crime, transportation of cargo, a medical procedure, a legal proceeding, an economic transaction, and/or a construction project. An event may be documented by data including, but not limited to, optical... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080184268 - Indirect event stream correlation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that indirectly correlate event streams on multiple computers. Event details are retrieved for multiple data streams from each of the computers. The event details include a task identifier and ordering identifier for each event in the data streams on each computer. The task identifiers... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080184266 - Information system with event-enabled data objects: A computer-implemented information system involves data objects stored in the database with characteristics of such data objects defined at a design time. The system is able to associate customized data object events with at least some of the data objects subsequent to the design time to define subscriber objects. Data... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080184270 - Method and apparatus for sending notification to subscribers of requested events: Subscribers are notified of selected incoming events, such as fax or a memo. Subscriber profiles, stored in a database, contain data concerning at least one specified event of which a subscriber wishes to be notified and a procedure by which the subscriber prefers to be notified. When an incoming event... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080184267 - Program generated notification control: A method is disclosed that comprises a control program receiving a notification control request from a user (the notification control request specifying whether to enable or disable the generation of notifications by a first user application program); identifying a software interface associated with the first user application program and used... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184269 - Remotely controlling and viewing of software applications: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an input for a software application that is executing on a controlled device. The method also includes transmitting, over a network, an identification of an event for the software application, that is a result of the input, to a controller device to remotely... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080184273 - Input/output virtualization through offload techniques: A computer apparatus provides support multiple virtual computing machines. In accordance with one embodiment, the computer apparatus includes a platform manager, a virtual machine manager (VMM) driver of the platform manager, a TCP/IP stack of the platform manager, a guest operating system supported by the platform manager, and a TCP... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184274 - Operating system switching control device and computer system: In a computer system according to the present invention, a switch-source OS controller unit includes: a OS switch request receiver unit configured to receive an OS switch request for requesting that the switch-destination OS in a suspend status becomes the OS in the active status; a switch event notifying unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080184276 - Communication method and apparatus using changing destination and return destination id's: A method of exchanging a series of communication primitives during one or more communication sessions between two or more communication units is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a first communication primitive including at least a first destination ID identifying at least a first communication unit as a... Agent: Sun Microsystems/finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080184275 - Resource ejectability in multiprocessor systems: In one embodiment, a multiprocessor computer system comprises at least a first partition having a first operating system and a second partition having a second operating system, comprising logic in the first operating system to generate a request to remove a device from the first partition, logic in a firmware... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184277 - Systems management policy validation, distribution and enactment: Applying policy rules to software installed on a device. A group of devices to receive policy rules for the software is identified. The devices belonging to the specified group is identified. A set of policy rules assigned to the devices in the specified group are identified. The policy rules assigned... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080178194 - Integrating non-compliant providers of dynamic services into a resource management infrastructure: A method and a corresponding system for use in a resource management infrastructure conforming to the WMI architecture are proposed. The WMI architecture includes a framework, known as CIM Object Manager (or CIMOM), which exploits WMI providers of dynamic services for the managed objects; in the WMI architecture, the CIM... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080178196 - Automatic subscriptions to shared repositories with notifications reflecting accesses by important other users and keywords stored in a personal interest profile: A system and method for automatically generating and receiving notifications regarding accesses to documents in a shared repository, where the notifications are filtered such that they are only generated and/or received for accesses that match a personal interest profile of a local user. The personal interest profile of the local... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080178197 - Enhanced product tracking: Enhanced product tracking, in which a data collection interface is established between a first supply management device and a transaction database, the data collection interface providing the transaction database with access to identification data and event data, the identification data uniquely identifying a pharmaceutical, and the event data relating to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080178195 - Transparently capturing the causal relationships between requests across distributed applications: Several embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods, computer program products, and systems configured to track operation dependencies. For example, in one embodiment, at a first entity, a first identifier corresponding to a first operation is accessed. For a second operation occurring as a result of the first operation, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080178198 - Distributed digital media management: Disclosed herein is a method and system of discovery, management, access and control of digital contents distributed over a plurality of heterogeneous digital devices. A distributed digital media management middleware is provided on each of the devices that discovers, streams, moves, and synchronizes content among the devices. The distributed digital... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Lipton Weinberger & Husick

20080178199 - Information processing device, image processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: A disclosed information processing device for processing a macro defining at least execution conditions of a data input unit, a data processing unit, and a data output unit includes a storage unit; a user interface unit configured to receive a macro registration request and a macro retrieval request; a macro... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080178200 - Method for allocating peripheral device, information processing system, information processing unit and management apparatus: A management apparatus including a storing portion for storing information relating to utilization sites of a plurality of terminals and driver with information of the plurality of peripheral devices in association with one another, and a control portion for specifying any of the peripheral devices from among the plurality of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080178201 - Sharing a network i/o adapter between logical partitions: An I/O adapter sharing mechanism in a logically partitioned computer system allows sharing a network I/O adapter between logical partitions in an efficient manner. A first logical partition owns (or controls) the I/O adapter, and a second logical partition desires to use (or share) the I/O adapter. An I/O adapter... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080178202 - Interface for supporting an element management system: Described herein are embodiments that provide a device model to the data structure, or management protocol, of an element management system (EMS) to support new and non-standard devices and incorporate such devices into the EMS for management of the devices. The device model employs device plug-ins for the EMS to... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080178203 - Apparatus, system, and method for executing functions in an event driven environment from a co-routine environment: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for executing functions in an event driven environment. A bridge module stores parameters and a proxy function pointer for a proxy function in a bridge structure for a co-routine context executing in a co-routine environment. The proxy function is configured to execute in... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080172675 - Context-sensitive middleware service injection: A system, method and computer program product for context-sensitive middleware service injection. A technique is described to apply desired middleware functionality to granular units of functionality in response to extra-functional requirements and context information. Context may include without limitation types of process activities, phases of execution of process activities, identities... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080172676 - Monitoring messages in a distributed data processing system: Methods, systems, and products are provided for monitoring messages in a distributed data processing system. Embodiments typically include putting a message containing a monitoring token on a queue on a server; receiving a call to get the message from the queue on the server; determining, with an API exit running... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080172677 - Controlling execution instances: Methods, computer readable media, systems, and computing devices are provided for controlling execution instances. A method embodiment includes maintaining in a counter of a database, a count associated with a particular number of execution instances of a application registered in the database. The method includes setting for the counter, an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080172678 - Rights object acquisition method of mobile terminal in digital right management system: A rights objects acquisition method of a mobile terminal in a digital right management system is provided for acquiring multiple rights objects in a composite manner. An objects right acquisition method of a mobile terminal may include generating, in response to a group rights object (RO) acquisition command, a group... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080172679 - Managing client-server requests/responses for failover memory managment in high-availability systems: A system, method and computer-readable medium for managing service request exception conditions in a computer system that services client requests. In one embodiment, an original client request is received by a server. The client request and responses to the request are generated using fuzzy logic selection from a request/response object... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080172680 - System and method for managing interactions in a virtual environment: A first viewer (310) is activated to define and render a visualization of a first interactive virtual reality experience to a user. At least one first application (320, 330, 340) is selected for use with the first interactive virtual reality experience and at least one first event handler (321, 322,... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080172681 - Methods and apparatus for metering computer-based media presentation: Methods and apparatus for metering the presentation of computer-based media presentation are disclosed. An example disclosed method performed by a computer that is configured to execute an operating system and a media presentation program comprises modifying the media presentation program to re-direct a function call made to the operating system... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080172682 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program: A sub-processor different from the main processor executing control in the operating system (OS) is designated to control a device driver corresponding to a communication unit and thus, the communication control is executed by the sub-processor in response to an interrupt originating from a network card functioning as the communication... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080168467 - Method and system for creating executable document and repository links within virtual workplace environments: A method for creating executable document and repository links within a virtual workplace environment includes capturing steps corresponding to a user navigation through a central database accessible by defined members of a collaborative groupware application, and creating and inserting one or more executable scripts as an attachment to an electronic... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20080168469 - Dynamic transaction protocol upgrades: Including support for advanced protocols in propagation information transferred between applications. Transaction managers associated with the applications communicate with each other to complete a transaction. Rather than communicating using a standard protocol, embodiments of the invention enable a first transaction manager to identify advanced protocols supported by the first transaction... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080168470 - Time synchronization of media playback in multiple processes: Systems, methods, devices enable the efficient synchronization of timing information from first time-based process to a second time-based process using periodic or event-driven synchronization messages.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080168468 - Universal multimedia engine and method for producing the same: A method, system and apparatus for adapting the multimedia content for presentation by an application that uses, processes or otherwise services the multimedia content (“multimedia application”) is provided. The method includes receiving the multimedia content formatted in accordance with at least one of a plurality of multimedia protocols; using a... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080168472 - Recording execution information: A method for recording execution information for a software application executable in a computer system, the computer system including a message queue, the method comprising the steps of: generating the execution information by the software application; and recording the execution information to the message queue for subsequent retrieval, wherein the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080168471 - System and method for collective send operations on a system area network: A system and method for collective send operations on a system area network are provided. The mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments provide for the creation, modification, and removal of collective send queues (CSQs) that allow the upper level protocol (ULP) used by a consumer to send the same message to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080168473 - Selective generation of an asynchronous notification for a partition management operation in a logically-partitioned computer: A logically-partitioned computer, program product and method utilize a flexible and adaptable communication interface between a partition and a partition manager, which permits optimal handling of partition management operations such as state change operations and the like over a wide variety of circumstances. In particular, a partition is permitted to... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080168474 - Method and system for interworking plurality of applications: An application interoperation method including the steps of: maintaining a handler table including data type information, function information and calling information which are associated with each application installed in a portable device; receiving input information on a menu key of the portable device, from a user, while a first application... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20080168475 - Method and apparatus for intercommunications amongst device drivers: Techniques for intercommunication amongst device drivers are described herein. In one embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is provided by a kernel of an operating system (OS) running within a data processing system. The API is accessible by device drivers associated with multiple devices installed in the system. In response... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080168476 - Method for a scsi target controller to safely shut down an operating system by the use of a standard scsi initiator command: The present invention relates to a method for the safe shut down of an operating system. The invention utilizes a shutdown-monitoring program that is running in an initiator operating system to periodically transmit and pass-through SCSI command to a SCSI target to determine if a shutdown operations is to be... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080168477 - Enterprise device driver management for operating system deployment: Enterprise driver management and image installation are described. In an implementation, a computer-implemented method is performed in which a determination is made as to whether drivers for a plurality of clients are available from an operating system to be installed on the plurality of clients. A report is then generated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080168478 - Application programming interfaces for scrolling: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with user interface software interacting with a software application. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes transferring a scroll hysteresis call to determine whether a user input invokes a scroll. The method... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080168479 - Bypass virtualization: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for augmenting machine virtualization by entirely bypassing resource emulation for performance-critical features, such as 3D graphics acceleration, through the use of high-performance interfaces between the guest OS and the host OS. Embodiments of the present invention also comprise methods and systems... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168480 - Methods and apparatus for interfacing application programs with a signal collector: Embodiments of the invention relate to a system having multiple application programs that process signals obtained from a signal collector. In some embodiments, the signal collector may have a common API that may be shared by two or more application programs. This allows two application programs to use the same... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080163242 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program for controlling resource access by application program: A method executed in an information processing apparatus for controlling resource access by an application program running on the information processing apparatus is provided. A change in connection statuses or operating statuses of a device connected to the information processing apparatus is first detected. In response to the detection, a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080163243 - Method and system for optimizing file table usage: An operating system directed to using special properties of a common inter-process communications mechanism (IPC), namely UNIX domain socket-pairs or stream-pipes alternatively as a storage medium for file-descriptors of UNIX processes. When a file-descriptor is written into a socket-pair, and closed in the UNIX process, the file remains open, but... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080163247 - Device and a method of operating a device: A device (200; 300) comprising a first application unit (401) and a second application unit (402) provided in a first portion (202) of the device (200; 300), and a transfer unit (211) provided in a second portion (212; 302) of the device (200; 300), wherein the transfer unit (211) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080163246 - Methods for launching a program application: A method for launching a program application is provided. Here, configuration instructions are stored in a memory device and the configuration instructions are associated with multiple configurations. A configuration is selected from the multiple configurations when the memory device is coupled to a computing device. Thereafter, a configuration instruction associated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080163245 - Multi-tiered message parsing: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for multi-tiered parsing of messages. A message that includes data characterizing values is received, the message is parsed to obtain the values as a first data type, and an instance of a value being of a second data type is generated in response... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080163244 - Processing a received message: Processing a received message includes receiving a message that includes a plurality of values associated with respective data elements that assign an information category to each of the values. The message further includes a plurality of context values belonging to respective context categories. The method includes identifying, in a relevance... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080163248 - System and method for completeness of tcp data in tcp ha: System and method for completeness of transmission control protocol (TCP) high availability (HA) are disclosed. The system includes an active processor, having an application and a TCP, and a standby processor, having another application and another TCP; wherein communications among the active application, the active TCP, the standby application and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080163250 - Method and apparatus for creating, sending, and using self-descriptive objects as messages over a message queuing network: An invention for creating, sending, and using self-descriptive objects as messages over a network is disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, self-descriptive persistent dictionary objects are serialized and sent as messages across a message queuing network. The receiving messaging system unserializes the message object, and passes the object... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080163249 - System for workload balancing by resetting an average queue depth upon the start of the server instance: The present invention relates to an apparatus and computer program for workload balancing in an asynchronous messaging system. The number of server instances, which process work items from a queue of messages, is controlled based upon that queue's average queue depth and one or more predetermined thresholds.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080163251 - Electronic value exchange system, mobile terminal, and electronic value exchange method: An electronic value exchange system 100 comprises a mobile terminal 10 and a mobile terminal 20. The mobile terminal 10 causes a driver 12 to transmit an exchange offer message of electronic value V1, V2 to the mobile terminal 20. The mobile terminal 20 stores handlers that the driver 12... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080163252 - Error handling for intermittently connected mobile applications: An intermittently connected mobile device asynchronously communicates with a middleware system for subsequent communication with a back-end system. Local data objects are given an inconsistent state when charged on the mobile device and the back-end system is not available for data validation. Due to the intermittent communication, a waiting period... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080163253 - Dynamic business object properties for soa architectures: This disclosure involves dynamic business object properties for Enterprise Service Architecture (ESA) or other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) architectures. For example, a method for dynamically modifying an interface in a SOA can comprise receiving a request for an interface associated with a business object, where the interface includes a plurality... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080163254 - Controlling virtual machines based on performance counters: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for controlling virtual machines based on performance counters are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an event counter, a comparator, and virtualization control logic. The event counter is to keep an event count based on the number of occurrences of an event. The... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080163255 - Core sparing on multi-core platforms: Methods and apparatus to provide core sparing on multi-core platforms are described. In an embodiment, stored core state information of a target core (e.g., a core that has detected a fault condition (e.g., within its circuitry) or a request to offload operations from the target core (e.g., to enable run-time... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080163256 - Extensible and flexible firmware architecture for reliability, availability, serviceability features: Improved reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) is provided by an extensible and flexible firmware architecture. The architecture provides management for events, where an event is a response to an imminent failure of or capacity change requirement applicable to a component of the system. In response to an event, control of... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080163258 - Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application with notification precedence: A method, a computer program product, a computer system and a method for supporting an application. The method includes: starting multiple applications, each application having multiple possible states and having state transitions between the possible states; starting and displaying each application in respective display modes on a computer screen; assigning... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080163257 - Real-time balance updates: A method and a system that receive retrieve dynamic data when a notification with dynamic data is triggered. The dynamic data is associated with an account that is associated with a portable consumer device associated with a consumer. The method and system automatically send the notification with the dynamic data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080163261 - Application execution apparatus, storage medium storing application execution program, and application execution method: An application execution apparatus includes: a notification section capable of providing notification; and an application execution section that causes at least one application capable of performing at least one process to perform a plurality of processes by executing the application, the application issuing, in response to a predetermined result obtained... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080163260 - Asynchronously generated menus: Techniques described herein may provide web pages to customers describing various accounts of the customers. In one implementation, a system receives a request for a web page from a client relating to an account of the client, and generates a document in response to the request. The document includes a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080163259 - Generation of menus for multiple back-end systems: A system may receive a request for a web page from a client and dynamically generate a document in response to the request. The document may include a reference to a script configured to display a context menu in the web page. The document may further include an encoded value... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080163262 - Method and apparatus for implementing a predetermined operation in device management: A method for implementing a predetermined operation in device management, being based on a DM system defined by OMA, includes: sending by the device management system a second predetermined operation based on a trigger condition to a terminal device and storing by the terminal device the received predetermined operation; and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080163263 - Method for acquisition of gdi and direct x data: A method for acquiring graphics device interface data and DirectX data by use of a filter driver transparent to transparent to a graphics device interface engine, DirectX kernel and a real display driver is disclosed, the method comprises steps of: updating the graphics device interface, and acquiring the graphics device... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080163264 - Directory service that provides information from a plurality of disparate data sources: At least a first application program interface (API) may be provided to support retrieval of data from a plurality of disparate data sources. A directory from which data from at least one of the disparate data sources is exposed may be provided. Requested data may be automatically provided in response... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080163266 - Mechanism for transparently interfacing with a third party version control system: Approaches for transparently interfacing with a third party version control system (VCS) are provided. In one approach, an enterprise application integration (EAI) system comprises an integrated development environment (IDE) client, a repository, an API, and an API implementation. The IDE client enables a user to develop one or more functional... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20080163268 - Message formation and distribution in heterogeneous networks: A system is disclosed for communicating with a plurality of network processors, one or more of the processors having a different operating environment, includes receiving an application programming interface (API) call from a user application, the API call including a call address identifying one or more of the network processors;... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080163265 - System and method for reducing the static footprint of mixed-language java classes: A system and a method for minimizing the functionality-gap between Java and native platforms while keeping the impact on each Java API static footprint as small as possible. A Java Runtime Dynamic Invocation API is used for low-level bridging between Java and C/C++, enabling the dynamic invocation of native C/C++... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080163267 - Web container extension architecture: A system and method for integrating a diverse set of web/remote user interface technologies into one runtime architecture using a Web container extension is described. This integration simplifies execution, cross-usage, and technology integration between different user interface technologies and other application server offerings.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080163269 - Remote procedure call system, remote procedure call method, program for implementing remote procedure call system: Input/output data classes defined based on an interface between a server and a client are embedded in a client application, and input/output data objects, which are instances of the input/output data classes, are generated when the client application calls a server application with a remote procedure call. When the client... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080163270 - Injection library: A runtime environment injects an instance of an external resource into an application component to be executed in the runtime environment by first determining an external resource associated with the application component, then selecting from a library of injectors an injector to inject an instance of the application component with... Agent: Sap/blakely